Dru Ann (Quigley) Carbone

Dru Ann Carbone, 70, of Middleboro, passed away in the early morning hours of March 18, 2026, at Oakhill Nursing Home in Middleboro, after a long and courageous battle with Alzheimer's disease. She passed away six months to the day from what would have been her 50th wedding anniversary.

Born June 3, 1955, in Natick, Massachusetts, Dru grew up in the towns of Natick, Wayland, and Wellesley before her family settled in the center of East Bridgewater, where she would put down her earliest roots. She graduated from East Bridgewater High School with the Class of 1974, and it was there she built the foundation of the life she would carry forward.

From an early age, Dru knew what it meant to show up for others. She worked alongside her family at Quigley's Gift and Garden starting around age 14, learning the patience and care that would define her. She later worked as a seamstress at Sam Cohen's, a skill she never put down -- she spent a lifetime sewing gifts, mending clothes, and making Halloween costumes that her children still remember.

On September 18, 1976, she married Dana Allen Carbone in a ceremony at her parents' home that reflected exactly who she and Dana were -- two people who never much cared for convention and always led with their hearts. They built their life together in Wareham before returning to Middleboro, where they became lifelong residents. Dru was fiercely proud of their home. She cleared brush, built stonewalls with her own hands, and tended gardens that were as much an expression of who she was as anything she ever said out loud.

While Dana sometimes worked long crazy hours, Dru held everything together. She made lunches, did the laundry, helped with school projects, and never once made the people she loved feel like a burden. She watched children for friends and family, and her home became a place where kids always knew they were welcome. From the neighborhood children in Wareham to the many young lives she touched over the years, she gave every child who crossed her threshold the same thing -- warmth, stability, and the feeling that they mattered.

She was a lifelong artist. She painted ceramics, worked in acrylics, and in her later years took up stained glass -- intricate, luminous work that a blessed few carry with them today as among their most treasured possessions. Arthritis eventually took that from her, but never her creativity or her eye for beauty.

Dru was raised in the Episcopal faith and brought her family up in that tradition, a faith that shaped her values even as formal practice faded in later years. She was, at her core, someone who believed in showing up -- for her children, her grandchildren, her husband, her parents, her siblings, and anyone who needed her. Even when her own relationships were complicated and hard, she came back. She always came back.

She is survived by her husband of nearly 50 years, Dana Allen Carbone; her son Adam Joseph Carbone and his wife Tammy of Middleboro; her son Alexander Thomas Carbone of Middleboro; her daughter Ariane Athena Himmel and her husband Charlie of Raynham; her brother Walter "Tommy" Thomas Quigley Jr.; her sisters Debrah Anacki, Daren Eaton, and Donna Maynard; and her eleven grandchildren, who knew her simply as Grammy -- Grace, Addison, Annabelle, Ella, Abigail, Liam, Sadie, Mallory, Eleanor, Elizabeth, and Carson.

She will not be replaced.

Memorial visitation for Dru will be held on Monday March 30, 2026, from 5:00-8:00PM, at the Dahlborg-MacNevin Funeral Home, 280 Bedford Street, Lakeville, MA 02347. A funeral home service will be held on Tuesday March 31, 2026, at 11:00AM.

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